Here are two clips from Shoresy season 5 that sell it way better than Hulu's new trailer

Shoresy is so much funnier and more heartfelt than dour monologues about hockey philosophy—so why not show it off?

Here are two clips from Shoresy season 5 that sell it way better than Hulu's new trailer

Look, we’re just going to come out and say it: Hulu’s just-released trailer for the fifth season of Jared Keeso’s extremely good hockey comedy Shoresy isn’t great. It’s short, for one thing, consisting of just a 30-second monologue from Keeso’s title character. And, worse, it’s neither funny nor heartfelt—two of the things that make Keeso’s Letterkenny spin-off so special—instead simply focusing on Shoresy’s sadness about the plight of North American hockey. (Is it possible someone looked at the massive success of Heated Rivalry, also originally released on Canadian streamer Crave, and simply came to the conclusion that it was the hockey that people were excited about?)

Luckily, there are a lot of clips of Shoresy‘s fifth season floating around online right now (on account of the season debuting in Canada back over the holidays), and so it’s still possible to construct a pretty good sales pitch for the new run of shows—which follows its title character as he transitions from hockey player to hockey coach while the Sudsbury Blueberry Bulldogs face a brand new set of challenges on the ice—from officially released materials.

For instance: Take the above scene from the season’s first episode, which sees Shoresy take a young player he previously mentored aside and give him a very Shoresy-style pep talk: Lots of heart, a bit of violence, and just a touch of vulgarity. It’s a fantastic showcase for the work Keeso has done in taking a character who originally existed, back in the Letterkenny days, as a faceless walking “Your mom” joke, and making a surprisingly lovable hero out of them.

Which makes for a nice contrast with a sneak preview clip that the show released for the season a few months back, which dives head-on into the show’s good-natured ability to run the dirtiest jokes it can think of straight into the ground. We’re not saying everyone is going to enjoy a convoluted, frank, multi-room conversation about various hockey players’ approaches to masturbation; just that it’s a pretty good representation of what the show’s humor looks like when it’s working at full tilt.

Anyway, we’d just hate for someone to walk away from the official trailer thinking this series was a series of dour monologues about the spirit of violence in hockey. (That’s in there, but it’s not all the show is.) Shoresy season 5 lands on Hulu on February 21.

 
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